"The people of northern Jiangsu wept blood and complained: Since the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the virtuous corporal has been in the wind for two hundred years, and then there is a peaceful and prosperous era. Northern Jiangsu is the first good area, the people are simple, and there are few famines. However, recently, Wu Xing pretended to be the name of Liang Guogong, went south privately, and wantonly killed and plundered, which was actually leading beasts to eat people. Wu Xing was cunning, and in the name of implementing rent reduction and interest reduction, the officials and gentry paid grain in one piece, but in fact they were slaughtering the officials and gentry and seeking wealth for themselves. There is a squire Zhang, who was captured by the Wuxing villain He Fengshan, He Fengshan asked him if he was guilty, and Zhang said he didn't know. He Fengshan arrested the children of the Zhang clan all over the world, and ordered that the general encouraged the denunciation, and the others were all guilty and should be killed, but if the son-in-law reported his parents and the son-in-law reported the son-in-law, the sentence could be commuted. So, the son-in-law sued his father, the son-in-law sued his son, and the relatives no longer had family affection. Zhang was finally beheaded, and his family wealth was gone. Zhang's affairs are normal in northern Jiangsu. ”

"The tragedy of the world is too long to write. And even if Zhang deserves to die, he should be sent to the Duke of Guogong and handed over to Yousi, how can there be any reason to pacify the envoy and kill himself? If so, wouldn't it be the reappearance of the Tang Domain? And Zhang did good deeds in the township, building bridges and paving roads, giving clothes and coffins, which is a well-known thing. Even if there is a mistake, the mistake will not lead to death! Guogong is the pillar of the society, and it is expected that such things should not be tolerated. The people of northern Jiangsu wept blood and sued, please punish the cool officials Wu Xing, the hearts of the common people, and solve the grievances of the people, so that it is the way of peace in the prosperous world. ”

This document, written in the blood of a man or an animal, was written on a huge silk silk, on which the blood was dripping with stars, and some of it had turned black, and it looked like it was frightening.

Behind the words of the accusation are the signatures of hundreds of officials and gentry who have heads and faces in northern Jiangsu and Huaibei, or who think that they have heads and faces and some prestige and status. Of course, the signature must be written with the name of the department, the official position and so on.

Naturally, this document is not an urgent military report, but it is the same as the war situation from the Western Front, and it is placed on the copywriting of Li Shouhan's signing room. made Li Shouhan quite annoyed.

"This Wu Xing! I don't think Lao Tzu is messy enough here, not enough to be anxious, right?! ”

Li Shouhan held this form of ten thousand people written in blood in his hand, and kept scolding Wu Xing, who was in the Jianghuai area of northern Jiangsu at the moment. Suddenly, a text came into his eyes: "Li, a good man in northern Jiangsu, only takes 40% of the land rent, and only lives by renting cattle, horses and farm tools, or repairing water canals and selling water to survive." He Fengshan actually rented out farm tools, cattle and horses and sold water too expensive, so that he redeemed himself. If Li does not allow it, he will be killed and abandoned the city. ”

Self-redemption? How about self-redemption? Li Shouhan became a little interested in this.

Someone on the side explained to Li Shouhan. The so-called self-redemption means that the landlord, who rents out livestock and farm tools and sells irrigation water, returns the part above the market price to the farmers. As a result, Li, the landlord who rented out farm tools and livestock and sold irrigation water, as well as landlords of all sizes who engaged in similar activities like him, were bitterly calculated by this kind of behavior of settling accounts, and cried and grabbed land. Like Li, who was punished by He Fengshan, there were a lot of landlords, and when they saw the debts that were enough to sell their wives and children, houses, fields, and shops, they might not be able to pay off, they gritted their teeth and stomped their feet and took a very noble way - suicide.

"Isn't this Wu Xing also a traverser? How can this trick be so much like the rent reduction and surrender in the process of land reform that has been scolded by countless conscientious historians, inhumane and unreasonable? Li Shouhan bit the pen in his mouth, thinking helplessly in his heart. These tricks are not traversers, they can't! This guy, such a bold pirate, isn't afraid that someone in Shaoshan Chong will ask him for braised pork as a copyright fee? ! ”

Pressing Li Shouhan's suspicion that Linyi Zhenfu made Wu Xing suspected of being a traverser, we temporarily pulled our eyes back to Wu Xing's side to see how he stirred up the anger and resentment of the people in the Jianghuai area of northern Jiangsu, and the "people" resentment boiled.

In the living room of the envoy of Linyi Town, full of friends, Lu Ma Hong, Fan Xiaozeng, Liao Dongzhi, He Fengshan gathered together, if it weren't for the slightly embarrassed looks on Lu Ma Hong and Wu Xing's faces, it almost made people think that these people were coming together to celebrate the Spring Festival. Of course, although I have tried my best not to be close to each other, not to be close to each other. Lu Mahong still accidentally expressed her dissatisfaction, only to see her smile and say to Wu Xing: "Wu Zhenfu, I heard that Miss Jing was beaten yesterday for no reason, this is not very good, although it is just a concubine, but the law of Nanzhong, concubines cannot be beaten and scolded at will." ”

The corners of Wu Xing's mouth twitched and said, "She offended Mrs. Li, how can she deal with it without family rules." I'm not that Mao Wenlong, who protects his own godson and grandson, so much so that he has trouble with Yuan Chonghuan to the point of never dying. Of course, Mrs. Wu is not the Yuan Chonghuan, and she will not stop me from stabbing me, right? ”

Wu Xing's words made Fan Xiaozeng's face change, he knew that Wu Xing's words meant something, when Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong clashed, they changed the delivery route of materials, stipulating that all materials had to pass through Tianjin, and choked Mao Wenlong's supply lifeline. Mao Wenlong was furious and scolded Yuan Chonghuan for being in the same room, and stabbed me in the throat. Not long ago, Lu Mahong threatened to cut off Wu Xing's supply in disguise, and Wu Xing said this, which means obviously, that is, to express his dissatisfaction with the previous things. If this continues, then the combat meeting will not be able to be held.

So Fan Xiaozeng hurriedly coughed, this cough was not pretended, he has not been in good health and often coughs. This cough interrupted the conversation between Wu Xing and Lu Mahong, so that Wu Xing and Lu Mahong were forced to go to Fan Xiaozeng at the same time to express their concern. Fan Xiaozeng coughed for a while before stroking his chest, then waved his hand and said: "Two adults don't have to worry about me, I am a southerner, I have been warm and humid since I was a child, and I am not adapted to the northern climate, and when summer comes, everything will naturally be fine." But there are some things that we really can't wait for the spring flowers to bloom. ”

After that, Fan Xiaozeng pointed to the huge sand table in the middle of the house and said: "The current situation has developed to the situation that Wu Zhenfu is most worried about, that is, it is difficult for Dashun and my Daming to win quickly, while the Qing army has obvious advantages. Not to mention other places, as far as Shandong is concerned, our side can only stick to the triangular area of Denglai Yimeng, which has a narrow area and a lack of materials, so it is difficult to recover Jinan and retreat to Jianghuai. So if you want to make a difference, you can't change the current strategic situation, I don't have a good plan for the time being, I don't know what the two adults think. ”

Wu Xing nodded secretly, this Fan Xiaozeng is really good at being a man, what do you say there is no good strategy, your sister's staff officer told me that there is no good strategy, what are you teasing me? To put it bluntly, it's nothing more than a step for me and Lu Mahong, anyway, the two of us just said that he would climb the pole, and we can only talk about the general direction. Thinking about it, Lu Mahong said: "Staff Officer Fan, I think that the top priority at the moment is to take Xie Qian to Yimeng Mountain first. Lu Ma Hongyan, there was silence in the hall for a while, in fact, everyone knew that this matter should indeed be done, Xie Qian's uprising in Gaoyi dealt a heavy blow to the official gentry forces in Shandong, restrained a large number of troops of Zhanglinghu and Wu Fengxian, and created a time window for the consolidation of the Yimeng Mountain base area. But the problem is that now Xie Qian is carrying a large number of old and weak women and children to play sports warfare with the Liulin Regiment and Zhang Linghu, and he has not gotten rid of the pursuit, and it is relatively far away from Yimeng Mountain, and the difficulty of this rescue is not ordinary.

Just when everyone was silent, He Fengshan suddenly said: "I said you, I just thought too much. In the past, when breaking into the camp, there was a rule for each other's battalion partners, and they were sent to see their own skills. For example, if you go to Luoyang together, I can welcome you to Kaifeng, but if you can't even get to Kaifeng, then I'm sorry, it's not that brothers are not righteous, it's that you don't have that ability. Today's matter is also a truth, let's send a wave of people to meet it, Xie Qianneng can rush to our designated position by himself, let's pick people up, if he can't rush, then he has no ability. ”

After He Fengshan finished speaking, he was proudly ready to accept everyone's praise, but Wu Xing slapped He Fengshan on the head, and then scolded: "Let you talk nonsense, now we are officials of the Ming Dynasty, what are you talking about breaking into Cao Ying, don't let me go." Of course He Fengshan was not convinced, and was about to fight back, but he heard Lu Mahong say: "Wu Zhenfu, don't beat He Fengshan first, I think what He Fengshan said is very reasonable." Now that our army is relatively weak, we should not take unnecessary risks. I think so, Staff Officer Fan, you can make a battle plan and let the Taiwanese infantry regiment and hussars pick up Xie Qian. ”

Everyone agreed, and the matter was settled. After discussing some details a little, Wu Xingcai said to everyone: "Since this matter has been decided, there is one more thing I want to mention." Staff Officer Fan also said just now that the big problem of our army now is that the territory is narrow, so since the north is not easy to fight, why don't we look at the south. As he spoke, Wu Xingyi pointed to the Jianghuai region on the sand table: "To the south of our Yimeng Mountain is northern Jiangsu and Jianghuai, where the fertile fields are thousands of miles away but the king's law is not practiced, and Erliu and all kinds of large and small armed forces are entrenched in it. On the one hand, they did not implement the new policies of the Ming court, and on the other hand, they threatened land transportation from Nanjing to Linyi all the time. Therefore, whether it is from the perspective of the dignity of the Ming court or from the actual needs of our army, it is necessary to occupy Jianghuai as soon as possible. My idea is to let He Fengshan lead the garrison brigade and a part of the artillery and propaganda team to the south to eliminate the lawless Er Liu, and at the same time implement a new policy to investigate the grievances of the petitioners. However, those who refuse to surrender their weapons and those who commit lawlessness will be dealt with according to the Linyi method. After speaking, Wu Xing's eyes were already full of murderous intentions.

Well, after Wu Xing finished speaking, the hall was quieter than just now. Lu Mahong and Fan Xiaozeng and Liao Dongzhi exchanged glances at each other, and secretly discussed with each other in their hearts, this Wu Xing has a big appetite, and it seems that he really wants to be a big warlord. It's really nice to say, the implementation of the new policy, we don't object to you just killing a few people, but don't lie to the original author of the propaganda team, okay, you obviously want every village and town in Jianghuai to have the surname Wu. However, the strategy proposed by Wu Xing is very necessary, so it is inconvenient to oppose it directly, after thinking about it for a while, Fan Xiaozeng said: "Wu Zhenfu, going south to Jianghuai is naturally the general trend, but I think it's not appropriate to fight relatively few battles in the garrison brigade, and I'm afraid it's not appropriate to go alone, I think it is safer to let Zuo Wuwei transfer some artillery to cooperate with Liao Dongzhi's subordinates." As for the propaganda team, Wu Zhenfu's propaganda team is indeed very meritorious, but now the main members are still girls who have just finished illiteracy, so I think it is best to let our art troupe accompany them. In addition, I think we should have a louder slogan, how do you think we go south to Jianghuai and use the slogan of popularizing law to collect debts? ”

Wu Xing smiled slightly, he already knew that his plan would inevitably be mixed with sand by the other party, which was also expected, so he just asked casually: "But I don't know what this popular law debt collection means?" Fan Xiaozeng said: "Popularizing the law is very simple, most of our people in the Ming Dynasty are illiterate and do not understand the law, so we naturally want the people to know what the law is." Our current law is rent reduction and interest reduction, and before the decree is issued, it doesn't matter how it is done, but since the decree is issued, if anyone dares to overcharge, it will be illegal. According to the rules of the national government, if they violate the law, they must not only recover the previous debts, but also settle the rents that they have collected for several generations, and then hand over some of these rents to the state treasury and part of them to the people, so it is called debt collection. ”

He Fengshan pursed his lips when he heard this: "I said Staff Officer Fan, why are you talking so complicated?" Just tell the people, according to the rules of the imperial court, whoever dares to charge more than forty percent of your rent, the landlord can directly throw it into the pit to cool down, if you report it, you can hold their eldest girl and go home to sleep. The next day, you can get up and go to the edge of the pit to see the old man, and see if he can jump out of the pit, no, how easy is this. ”

He Fengshan's words, the angry Wu Xing made a gesture to beat him, He Fengshan hurriedly dodged, Wu Xing didn't fight for a long time, so he had to scold: "You He Fengshan, if you talk nonsense, I'll let people beat you with a military stick." What Staff Officer Fan said is the truth, you are messing around. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will let Song Qiaomei lead the troops, and you will be her deputy. Wu Xing's words made the hall burst into laughter, and in the laughter, the matter of the Southern Expedition was decided. In this way, the famous southern and northern wars in later history officially kicked off.

At night, most people had already fallen asleep, but He Fengshan and Song Qiaomei sneaked to Wu Xing's door, of course, now is the period of the Strike Hard Period, and naturally there will be nothing to like. After saluting, Wu Xing made sure that there was no one around, and then said to He Fengshan: "You stinky boy, what are you hiding from me during the day?" I didn't hit you, what should I do if I dodge my waist? He Fengshan grinned: "Sir, what do you still say, don't say it's good to be pretentious, why are you so ruthless?" If I don't hide, I'm afraid I'll see Lord Yama a long time ago. ”

Song Qiaomei held back a smile desperately, she knew that the master and apprentice had a good relationship but had to pretend to be discordant, but this matter couldn't be broken, she could only watch the two of them mess around. Wu Xing didn't seem to be ready to let He Fengshan go like this: "What's wrong with me?" It's not like a point that can fool Lu Mahong, a mother-in-law? When He Fengshan heard this, he suddenly said dissatisfiedly: "I said sir, if you can really deceive Lu Mahong, I can be killed." But if you look at today's incident, it is clear that people can see through it at a glance. If you want to go south to Jianghuai to build territory, people will directly mix sand, and when the time comes, at least half of them will be divided, and maybe not even half. Not only did you not object, but you also agreed without any excuse, so aren't we working in vain?"

Wu Xing's angry posture was about to fight again, but Song Qiaomei hurriedly stopped Wu Xing and said, "Sir, he's just an elm head, if you don't explain it thoroughly, he won't understand anything." "Oh, so you can see what I'm thinking, sir?" Song Qiaomei smiled and said: "Although I don't understand everything, but I can barely guess one or two, what Mr. thinks is it, anyway, Lu Mahong's mother-in-law must be mixed with sand, so it is better to sell personal favors directly, and the loss can be made up for from other things." ”

Wu Xing nodded and said to He Fengshan: "Look, you will listen to Song Qiaomei more in the future, her head is much better than yours." I do have a way to follow, and it's up to the two of you. ”

As soon as they heard this, the two hurriedly came over and asked, "Sir, what do you say?" Wu Xing snorted and said: "Li Shouhan and Li Huayu are extremely treacherous, but their essence is to coerce the Great Tomorrow to control China, so although they dare to rely on the Great Tomorrow to reduce rent and interest The official gentry pay the grain together, but they can only do this, as long as the official gentry of the Ming Dynasty are not on this line, they will not do it to them." Not only that, but if they are obedient, they will give them all kinds of benefits in the future, and it will inevitably be the Chinese people who will suffer in the end. That's good, since he Li Shouhan has scruples, but we don't have it, then let's do what he Li Shouhan doesn't dare to do. Speaking of this, Wu Xing looked at He Fengshan and said: "He Fengshan, how you kid educates you is a ruffian, all day long, grandpa Laozi, okay, I don't need you to change it this time, when you get to northern Jiangsu, you will continue to shout to my grandfather Lao Tzu, and then catch the illegal gentry, all of them will be thrown into the pit under your supervision, and I will throw you into the pit if one climbs out." ”

Wu Xing's joke amused Song Qiaomei and He Fengshan, Wu Xing waited for them to laugh and then handed a book to Song Qiaomei and said: "This is a play I wrote, whose name is who raises whom?" The content is that a tenant told the landlord that the new policy would reduce rent and interest, and the landlord said that I supported you, and then the tenant argued with the landlord that I supported you. The focus here is to publicize one of our policies for the future, that is, in the future, all areas under the control of He Fengshan will implement the policy that peasant households only need to pay grain to the state, and the tax rate is 3/10, and if both parties agree, the tenants can pay one-tenth of the land rent to the landlord, and if they do not agree, then they do not have to pay a penny. ”

Wu Xing's words shocked He Fengshan and Song Qiaomei, although they were also people who had experienced strong winds and waves, they still didn't believe that what they heard was true. Song Qiaomei almost stammered a little and said, "Sir, can this work?" Wu Xing said disapprerovingly: "What's not to do? There is only one thing that he Li Shouhan hasn't figured out now, that is, some people, how you buy them are hatred. In that case, buy a fart. Whether they rebel or shrink, it has nothing to do with me, I only care about who I can buy to do for me. I believe that with my condition, it will be easy to buy those tenants, and it will be easy for them to take the lives of the gentry, and this will be enough. ”